Meryl Streep's best advice: embrace your weirdness

“For young women, I would say, don’t worry so much about your weight,” she said while accepting an honorary degree at Indiana University, per E!. “Girls spend way too much time thinking about that, and there are better things. For young men, and women, too, what makes you different or weird, that’s your strength. Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up. I used to hate my nose. Now I don’t. It’s OK.”